Whatever you feel like thread.

[ArlyA]

We have a couple of spots totaling 37 acres in the Piney Woods one of which we're building on and where the tractor resides.

The HOA in the post is in Galveston County just south of Houston. I'd like to get rid of that house but the kids are still infesting it.

What is a HOA?

 

[Shenandoah MF1760]

What is a HOA?

Home Owner's Association, also called POA for Property Owners Association in some areas.

The intent is to prevent people from allowing their property to fall into disrepair thereby causing the values of the surrounding properties to decrease.

There is typically a board of elected folks from the subdivision (or realty company , if newly developed) that look for infractions to the charter and if warnings aren't enough, will take legal action to insure people stay in line.

Insane abuses of power get a lot of attention.

 

[jjeff]

HOA Heretical Overly Annoying.neighbors me anyway I'll put a 20 yr old beater on blocks and liberally use an impact wrench, welder, and grinder on it at 6 am. Probably wouldn't last in a hoa neighborhood for very long.

 

[Torvy]

There's definitely a happy medium between most HOAs where over-controlling self-important 'Karens' try to dictate their preferences on everyone and a free-for-all where people are deliberately poor neighbors just because they can.

I've lived in places with both extremes.

Now, we have almost no rules, but the neighbors are decent people and don't go out of their way to annoy each other.

One guy has a firing range (commercial). He always lets us know if they will be shooting at odd hours. No rules, just common decency.

 

[jjeff]

Only spent a little time in a overreaching "Karen' HOA before my wife and I married and subsequently moved to 15 sprawling acres. Lol . Could write several pages of incidents i had with 'Karen" and her over bearing husband I'll call "Darren" to be nice. Definitely left that neighborhood with a bad impression of hoa's. I feel they had a going away party for us except we weren't invited.

 

[WinterDeere]

Only spent a little time in a overreaching "Karen' HOA before my wife and I married and subsequently moved to 15 sprawling acres. Lol . Could write several pages of incidents i had with 'Karen" and her over bearing husband I'll call "Darren" to be nice. Definitely left that neighborhood with a bad impression of hoa's. I feel they had a going away party for us except we weren't invited.

"Every neighborhood has one, and here, I'm it!"

People always comment how nice and quiet our neighborhood is, 10 houses spread out on 130 acres. I always tell them, "it was quiet, until I moved in!"

 

[jjeff]

Don't bother reading if you don't care for complaining but I feel like ranting about a tritoon trailer I recently bought.. so here goes it, has a lot of eye catching chrome bling and physically looks nice if that's your thing. I care more about what's on a trailer than actual trailer though. First job removing center caps on hubs to access grease fittings in order to get center cap off you need to remove tire. Rant 1 why do they use chrome covered lug nuts, a 19mm socket shouldn't screw them up, right? Wrong off to store I go to get solid 19mm lugnuts. #2 Why do they bother with chrome center caps to cover rubber dust cap in the first place? #3 after replacing cheap lug nuts I screwed up accidentally knocked off a plastic end cap on frame exposing the wiring. for cripes sake how do manufacturers get away with wire nuts on a trailer especially one designed to be submerged during hauling and launching? Me anyway if it's a trailer I want it to function and be easy to maintain. Who buys a trailer for looks rather than function besides apparently me lol this time anyway. However in my feeble defense it was the only one in my area with brakes on at least one axle that appear to function, and was ready for purchase at least all the welds looked decent.